Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099

In this economy, however often does a merchandise get less expensive earlier its debut? That conscionable happened with the Google / Xreal Aura, the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and aggregate virtual screens that conscionable went connected merchantability today. Xreal and Google person conscionable announced the headset costs $1,099 done the extremity of the year, down from the $1,279 that Xreal was charging for aboriginal preorders past month.

I expect that's due to the fact that at $1,279, they were going caput to caput with Meta's VR Glasses, and that's pugnacious contention for Google and Xreal's caller product. The Xreal Aura has 1 of the widest fields of presumption for transparent …

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